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Thursday, April 26, 2012

This is earth shaking (to me at least) the "...leading provider of advanced positioning solutions that maximize productivity and enhance profitability," Trimble, acquires SketchUp from Google to "...Enhance its Office-to-Field Platform."

Game Changer? Could a light weight modeling application used by millions across the globe, now partnered with a true leader in using data driven models to construct the Built Environment rock the AEC industry? Nah, probably not... (Sarcasm Folks, Sarcasm)

Thursday, April 19, 2012

The good folks at Sensopia have an awesome little iOS application that is going to change how we capture existing condition floor plans.

This FREE (!!!!!) app captures floor plans of rooms as you drop "markers" in the corners and at doors. It's not really photogrammety. You're not taking pictures. You are capturing points through your view finder using the compass and gyroscope built in your device. Then you stitch those rooms together into a floor plan.
Add multiple floors and BAM (not BIM, not yet.) As-Builts.

How accurate is it? I haven't confirmed yet. There is a calibration feature. And I'm sure like most tools, a majority of the how accurate the output comes from user input.

It truly is amazing. After a half hour or so of playing with it, I think I could put it to pretty good use. And that was without watching the tutorials (that's not pigheaded manliness, it's just that intuitive (OK, oink.))

I'm going to try an capture the new palace sometime over the next week.

Watch the videos.
Download the FREE app
Capture your world. (FYI, you do have to create an account with Sensopia. Aren't we all used to this by now?)

Maybe they will develop an app that captures the faces of walls and stitches those into a BIM (model, for you kitten killahs.) That would be something...

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Follow this link to a document that is intended to spark the conversation necessary to plan the Level of Development (LOD) requirements on a BIM enabled job (i.e. filling out that LOD matrix on your BEP). It is not a form to fill out (there are plenty of those) nor is it a template to apply to your projects, It's more a compass than a road-map.

Embrace the TLA . Andrew Abernathy at Strings, Connections and Links talks about how Extreme Project Management (XPM) when combined with BIM can bring peace and harmony efficiency to the AEC industry.
Are you Agile?

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